A fact has been missed.
Diet soda is as acid in ph as a car battery.
The body has to work in a flurry to balance the Ph to its slightly alkaline ideal state.
One of the ways to do this is using minerals from the body, including calcium, magnesium, and notably, iodine.
Iodine regulates metabolism. The acidic diet the average american alerady eats, combined with this, accounts for many of the symptoms originated.
That’s why drinking diet soda is as bad if not worst than soda.
No it isn’t. Not by a long shot. (By the way, it’s “pH”.) Diet sodas have an average pH of about 3. Battery acid has an average pH of of about 0.65. And pH is a logarithmic scale.
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Quite a few of them, in fact.
One important one is that the pH of stomach fluid is normally in the range of 1.5 to 3.5. Drinking diet (or regular) soda is not going to have a significant impact on this, nor will eating the “acidic” foods about which the woo-worshippers are always issuing dire warnings.
The body does a nice job regulating pH within the tight limits needed for normal metabolism, relying heavily on the kidneys and lungs.
As for claims that drinking diet soda depletes body minerals, you’d first have to demonstrate that this occurs, then show that Gulf War vets have physiologically significant low levels of these minerals, demonstrate that they developed these levels by drinking diet soda (and not by any other means), then show that disease resulted.
Best of luck.
If there’s proof that Gulf War syndrome exists, I haven’t seen it. Many who served in the Gulf are just fine. Some report various problems. There is no evidence that these problems are caused by a single source, and the variety of problems is broad.
DocCathode: Don’t be so bloody stupid.
Bet the 1st Gulf War never happened in your eyes either did it.
The title in the OP has nothing to do with the body of the OP.
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Alvin, way to alienate long time posters with your first post.
Please read the rules. Especially the one that says "Personal insults directed against other posters are not permitted outside the BBQ Pit forum. "
Thank you.
No warning issued. This time.
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Let me get this straight, we can prevent future soldiers from experiencing this syndrome by giving them mineral supplements? As long as you take your iodine tablets you can drink as much soda as you like? I feel like I’m being whooshed here.
What’s the typical pH of stomach acid, just for comparison?
Nonsense, he said nothing of the sort. What he said is that there is no consistent collection of symptoms with single consistent manifestation to be labeled “Gulf War Syndrome”, that all sorts of random problems are collectively bunched under that label with no rationale for that grouping except hysteria. Or something to that effect.
As quoted above, about 1.5 to 3.5.
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